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A Quick Thought on Branding and Advertising. . .

Kris — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:42:05 +0000

I saw a video the other day that got me to thinking about what goes into determining packaging for products so as to line up with advertising and branding. There are a lot of aspects that go into this process, but here I will briefly share two schools of thought and then the video. When designing packaging to reflect a brand and also advertise: 1. Simple design, let the product do the talking and walking; 2. Let the packaging do the talking and the product do the walking.

My Two Cents: I wrote this on my iBook.

iPod: Apple’s Creative Juices Still Flowing!

Kris — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:09:36 +0000

I am a big iPod fan and paid close attention to this week’s event announcing the new line of Nanos and the re-designed Shuffle. You can read the announcements here.

My co-worker had an idea for an iPod accessory. What is the use of a remote to control the music played on your iPod if you can’t see the songs on the iPod? Maybe you’re like me and don’t want to listen to every song in the playlist and like to bounce from playlist to playlist. As you can see the remote operation doesn’t do me much good since my eyesight isn’t good enough to see the iPod screen 10 feet away–even if I could control the playlist selection from a distance. So my co-worker’s idea is to have an accessory that attaches to the iPod, making the iPod the remote control in and of itself. I would have the ability to scroll through my playlists and songs and then when I hit play, it would transmit the music to the stereo. So, if there are any iPod R&D people out there, please see what you can do.

What kind of things would you want your iPod to do?

iPod Going Cellular?

Kris — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:13:09 +0000

Rumors are swirling about the possible, new iPod in a cell phone design. Here are two appleinsider articles discussing this new little tech gadget. Read the articles here and here.

What do you think, what’s Apple’s next big leap in the iPod market? Is cell phone where they’re headed?